Staff Software Engineer, Search

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is building a scalable search platform team to design and implement core search systems from the ground up, supporting Claude's information access. You will collaborate with senior engineers and researchers to deliver high-quality search capabilities.

The role emphasizes establishing metrics, improving search quality, and optimizing indexing and ranking for performance and accuracy. A Bachelor’s degree and production-ready experience are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building complex distributed systems in production.
• Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures.

Responsibilities

• Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch.
• Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality.
• Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost search accuracy and efficiency.

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

We're building Anthropic's search platform team to create scalable, efficient search capabilities that power Claude's ability to access and retrieve information. In this role, you'll design and implement core search systems from the ground up.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch
• Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality
• Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost search accuracy and efficiency

You may be a good fit if you:

• 5+ years building complex distributed systems in production
• Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages
• Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary: $1 — $2 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidity, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.